Lyric Opera 2023-2024 Issue 1 - The Flying Dutchman

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 30 in 2019 for Bregenz ( Rigoletto and Madama Butterfly ) and Salzburg ( Orphée aux Enfers ), Pesaro (Rossini Opera Festival), Venice, and Aix-en-Provence. Mazzola was born in Barcelona, Spain, into a musical family, and grew up in Milan, where he studied violin and piano, earning diplomas in composition and orchestral conducting at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. Enrique Mazzola is supported by the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair. CHRISTOPHER ALDEN DIRECTOR Previously at Lyric: Rigoletto (2000/01). Born in New York City, Alden has directed work across the globe. His production of Handel’s Partenope at English National Opera won the Olivier Award in 2009 and was subsequently presented by Opera Australia, San Francisco Opera, and Teatro Real in Madrid. Other ENO productions include Turandot, The Makropulos Case, Norma, and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which won the Golden Mask Award when presented at the Stanislavski Theatre in Moscow. For San Francisco Opera, Alden directed Les contes d’Hoffman, L’ incoronazione di Poppea, I vespri siciliani, Henze’s Das verratene Meer, The Mother of Us All, and Harvey Milk. At the Festival d’Aix en Provence, his staging of Il turco in Italia was presented as a co-production with Torino, Dijon, and Warsaw, and his Glimmerglass Opera production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo travelled to Oslo and Opera North in the UK. Other highlights include productions of Leonard Bernstein’s Peter Pan for Bard SummerScape Festival, Martinu˚ ’s The Greek Passion for Opera North, Péter Eötvös’s Three Sisters for the Ural Opera, Laura Schwendinger’s Artemisia for Trinity Church Wall Street, Peter Grimes and Tristan und Isolde for Karlsruhe, and Franchetti’s Asrael for Bonn. For the Canadian Opera Company, Alden created productions of Der fliegende Holländer, Die Fledermaus, Rigoletto, and La clemenza di Tito, and his stagings for New York City Opera included Le Comte Ory, L’italiana in Algeri, The Rape of Lucretia, Sousa’s The Glass Blowers, Don Giovanni, La Périchole, and Bernstein’s A Quiet Place. He directed the three Mozart/Da Ponte operas for Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and for Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with his twin brother, David Alden. ALLEN MOYER COSTUME & SET DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: Set Designer/ Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2021/22) . Among the distinguished designer’s credits are Orfeo ed Euridice , Fire Shut Up in My Bones , and Champion for the Metropolitan Opera, along with productions for New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, English National Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Santa Fe Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Dallas Opera, LA Opera, Seattle Opera, Scottish Opera, Washington National Opera, Welsh National Opera, and the Glimmerglass and Wexford Festivals. His numerous Broadway credits include Grey Gardens (Tony/ Drama Desk nominations, Henry Hewes Award), Paradise Square (Tony nomination), The Lyons , Lysistrata Jones , Thurgood , The Constant Wife , and Twelve Angry Me n. Other theater credits include productions Off-Broadway for The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, The Roundabout Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and numerous other regional theaters nationwide (including the Goodman and Steppenwolf). Moyer designed Carousel and Showboat with the New York Philharmonic, as well as the Delibes ballet Sylvia (The San Francisco Ballet) and Romeo and Juliet: On Motifs of Shakespeare (Mark Morris Dance Group), both choreographed by Morris. ANNE MILITELLO LIGHTING DESIGNER Lyric debut Militello’s design for The Flying Dutchman , originally for the Canadian Opera Company, has been presented at The Dallas Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Montreal, Portland Opera, and the Pittsburgh Opera. Other opera credits include Dulce Rosa at Los Angeles Opera, and collaborations with Christopher Alden including Bluebeard at Long Beach Opera, Djamileh and La Navarraise at Connecticut Opera, and Stranger Here Myself at The Public Theater. Militello provided lighting designs for original theater productions with writer/director Sam Shepard, Maria Irene Fornes, and lmmaker David Lynch, among others, and also designed the Broadway production of Cuba and His Teddy Bear with Robert DeNiro. She is the recipient of an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in the Off-Broadway Theater. Concert designs include international tours for Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, TomWaits, kd lang, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Pearl Jam, Josh Groban, and Lou Reed, among others. A former Walt Disney Imagineer, she received the Themed Lighting Designer of the Year award from Entertainment Design International. Additional accomplishments include permanent light-art installations on The New 42nd Street Studio Building, winner of The Paul Waterbury Award of Distinction from the International Illuminating Engineering Society, and “Light Cycles” at the World Financial Center. She heads the Master’s Lighting Program at CalArts and founded Vortex Lighting in Los Angeles. Lighting designers are supported by the Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard endowment in honor of Duane Schuler.